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Blackpool Tower Festival Headland

Start Date : March 2010
Location : Blackpool
EU Investment : £ 2.75 million
Visit Website : http://www.cabe.org.uk/sea-change/blackpool
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This project creates a large and flexible events space in front of Blackpool Tower designed to accommodate up to 20,000 people, providing all the technical and infrastructure support envisaged now and in the future within a level, safe, comfortable and unobstructed space.

The Tower Festival Headland project is part of a wider programme to remodel Blackpool’s Central Seafront that will: improve coastal defences; connect new promenade spaces to the foreshore with 3km of ‘Spanish Steps’; and create five new headlands linked together by parades.

The five new headlands create new places, all with different function, form and identity responding to the particular needs of their adjoining neighbourhood community. The Tower Festival Headland is the focal headland that connects Blackpool’s festival and events zone, the town centre and community, including the Winter Gardens and Grand Theatre, via Blackpool Tower with the new seafront, North Pier and Central Pier.

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